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CALC
Community Alliance of Lane County
I've Got Your Back
Action Alert
What you can do to have your community's back and be a strong ally.
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Greetings!
Trans Awareness Week, November 16th-20th
2009
Eugene, Oregon
Transgender Day of Remembrance
November 20, 2009Schedule of Events
November 16th - December 18th
2009
Exhibit: Celebrating Transgender Lives Display
2nd floor of the Atrium Building, 10th
& Olive (kitty-corner from the Library)
Please visit this fabulously thoughtful and well done
display of photographs and artifacts that vividly illustrate, highlight and
celebrate the lives of transgender persons.
Monday
November 16th
Workshop:
Transgenderism and Issues of Gender Identity
5:45-7:45 PM
Tykeson Room, Eugene Public Library 10th & Olive
This
engaging and interactive workshop will provide an overview of the
conceptualization of gender as a core identity; gender dissonance from a
holistic transsexual perspective, as well as the socio-cultural implications of
gender with all its biases, and politics. This workshop will address the experience
of growing up in a dichotomous culture without an archetypal schema for
"Trans" persons. It will cover definitions and terminology
associated with Transgenderism. It will speak to legal issues, daily
challenges, bias, and family issues encountered by transgendered people and
their Intimate partners, Family, Friends, and Allies ( IPFFA).
While
sometimes poignant this workshop can be quite light as we examine these issues.
It should be considered suitable for the public, direct service providers,
faculty, and students alike. There will be many handouts, visual aids, video
clips a Q & A period, or time permitting a panel discussion
It will be facilitated by Allison
Elise Cleveland MA Executive Director for The Gender Center Inc. with Guest presenters
Anastasia Usinowcz, from Sexual Assault Support Services and Akasha Vitelli,
gender & sexuality specialist.
Monday November 16th
Workshop: Trans
Transmission:How HIV
affects the Trans community
LGBTQA office EMU Suite 34. (Contact the LGBTQA office
about this event) lgbtqa@uoregon.edu
For campus locations please use this link: www.uoregon.edu/maps/
Tuesday
November 17th
Movie:
Boy I Am: (discussion follows)
U of O Campus,
McKenzie 229 6:00-8:30
For campus locations please use this link:www.uoregon.edu/maps/
While
female-to-male transgender visibility has recently exploded in this country,
conversations about trans issues in the lesbian community often run into
resistance from the many queer women who view transitioning as a
"trend" or as an anti-feminist act that taps into male privilege. BOY
I AM is a feature-length documentary that begins to break down that barrier and
promote dialogue about trans issues through a look at the experiences of three
young transitioning FTMs in New York City-Nicco, Norie and
Keegan-as they go through major junctures in their transitions, as well
as through the voices of lesbians, activists, and theorists who raise and
address the questions that many people have but few openly discuss.
Is
transitioning a trend? Is it healthy? Anti-feminist? What does it mean for a
young person in the lesbian community to become male, both for themselves and
for the community? And how are these questions affected by race and class?
The
film's historical framework insists on a coherent, patient, and inclusive
discussion that concentrates on a range of gendered experience. Situating these
struggles and stories in the context of queer and feminist struggles, BOY I AM
presents an empowering chronicle of queer resistance that challenges all
viewers to rethink their concepts of activism and identity. 72 minutes
Wednesday
November 18th
Movie:
Straightlaced (discussion follows)
U of O Campus,
EMU, Ben Linder Room 2:00-4:00
For campus locations please use this link: www.uoregon.edu/maps/
With a fearless look
at a highly charged subject, Straightlaced unearths
how popular pressures around gender and sexuality are confining American teens.
Their stories reflect a diversity of experiences, demonstrating how gender role
expectations and homophobia are interwoven, and illustrating the different ways
that these expectations connect with culture, race and class.
From girls confronting
media messages about culture and body image to boys who are sexually active
just to prove that they are not gay, this fascinating array of students opens
up with brave, intimate honesty about the toll that deeply held stereotypes and
ridged gender policing have on all our lives.
Straightlaced includes
the perspectives of teens who self identify as straight, lesbian, gay,
bisexual, or questioning and represent all points of the gender spectrum. With
courage and unexpected humor, they open up their lives to the camera; choosing
between "male" and "female" deodorant; deciding whether
to go along with anti-gay taunts in the locker room; having the courage to take
ballet; avoiding the restroom so they won't get beaten up; or mourning
the suicide of a classmate. It quickly becomes clear that about everything that
teens do requires thinking about gender and sexuality.
Coming of age today has
become increasing complex and challenging; Straightlaced
offers both teens and adults a way out of anxiety, fear and violence and points
the way toward a more inclusive, empowering culture. 67minutes
Wednesday
November 18th
Workshop: Transitioning
Our Youth?
5:30-7:45
Tykeson Room Eugene Public Library 10th & Olive
Facilitated by Jenn Burleton,
Executive Director of Transactive in Portland, Oregon; this basic and yet in
depth interactive workshop will focus on Children, Youth & Gender.
Does your child
experience their sense of being a boy or a girl in a way that is not typical or
expected?
Are they unhappy or depressed when they can't play with
toys or dress in clothing that is commonly associated with a gender other than the
one they are assumed to be?
If the answer to
these questions is "yes", then your child may be gender
non-conforming or transgender.
The most important thing for you, your
family and friends to know is that there is nothing wrong with your child.
Furthermore, there is nothing you or your family did or did not do that would
have caused this. There is compelling scientific and clinical evidence that the
foundation for every person's gender identity is formed prior to birth and that
it most likely is the result of a complex series of hormonal and chemical
influences on brain development. Some research points to a genetic component
that may influence the formation of gender identity independent of anatomical
development.
This workshop with Jenn and her staff will
provide an excellent opportunity for an in depth conversation about children
and adolescents and their emerging sense of self, and gender.
Thursday
November 19th
Movie:
Switch 6:00-8:00 (discussion with movie director Brooks Nelson follows)
U of O Campus,
Pacific 16
Switch,
A community in transition is a
documentary about a progressive, multicultural community and the response of
the community to a member's changing gender expression. The basic
premise of this film is that it is not the individual that transitions, but the
community.
Many
transgendered and transsexual people are not making a switch from ONE to
ANOTHER ONE, but rather switching their position on a continuum for a different
position. The switch, culturally, is for the people around them not
necessarily for themselves. Not the binary "off" and
"on" of a light switch, or the dualistic nature of the concepts of
male and female, but switch as in the subtle substitution of one for another
... switch this for that. Exchange.
A
transgendered person could argue nothing is switching for them, only a curtain
pulled back to reveal a different, more true self. They are not changing
anything, but aligning for themselves what has always been true
Friday
November 20th
Transgender
Day of Remembrance
Atrium
Building 10th & Olive
(Complete program for the
Transgender Day of Remembrance forthcoming)
5:30-6:00 social time (exhibits,
tabling, food)
6:00-7:30 speakers, singers, video
clips, Candle light vigil, speak out,
7:30-8:00 wrap-up pick-up
Friday
November 20th
Transgender
Day of Remembrance
U of O Gumwood
Room EMU 8:00 PM (contact LGBTQA Office about his event) lgbtqa@uoregon.edu
This will be a reception in the Gumwood Room which will move
out into the EMU Amphitheater for spoken word and a reading of the names of
those who have been murdered due to transphobia.
For more
information:
City of Eugene Equity and Human
Rights Center 541-682-5177
http://www.eugene-or.gov/hrcactivies
The Gender Center Inc. 541-870-5202 information@thegendercenter.org
On Facebook: The Gender Center
Inc.
Also: www.queereugene.com
www.grrlzrock.com
Trans Awareness Week and
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009 has been a passionate collaboration of:
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The Gender Center Inc.
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City of Eugene Equity and Human Rights
Commission,
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Sexual Assault Support Services.
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Grrlz Rock.
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U of O LGBTQA.
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Equity Foundation
TAW-TDOR Committee:
Allison Cleveland, Jesse Davis, Skyler, Akasha Vitelli,
Holly Lemasurier, Jenny Lor, Anstasia Usinowicz, Alex Esparza, Daniel McCall.
"Once
social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person
who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You
cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore." César Chávez
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